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Nicholas Pateshall,
A Short Account of a Voyage Round the Globe in H.M.S
Calcutta
1803–1804
, ed. Marjorie Tipping, Queensberry Hill Press, Melbourne, 1980, 56–64.

W.J. Peasley,
The Last of the Nomads
, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1983, 126–37.

François Pelsaert, ‘Woeful Diurnal Annotations Touching the Loss of Our Ship
Batavia…', The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606–1765
, ed. J. E. Heeres, Luzac & Co., London, 1899, 55, 60–61.

François Péron,
A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere
, Marsh Walsh Publishing, Melbourne, 1975, 271–78. First published London, 1809.

Arthur Phillip,
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay
, John Stockdale, London, 1789, 44–52. Facsimile edition published by Georgian House, Melbourne, 1950.

Olive Pink, from ‘The Personal Papers of Elkin', PI30, University of Sydney Archives.

John Price, Journey into the Interior of the Country',
Historical Records of New South Wales
, vol. iii, ed. F. M. Bladen, Charles Potter, Government Printer, Sydney, 1895, 820–23.

George Augustus Robinson,
Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834
, ed. N.J. B. Plomley, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, 1996, 490–93.

John McDouall Stuart,
The Journah of John McDouall Stuart
, ed. William Hardman, Saunders, Otley and Co., London, 1865, 10–12, 164–66.

Charles Sturt,
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia
, vol. ii, Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1833, 88–110. Facsimile edition published by Doubleday Australia, Sydney, 1982.

Charles Sturt,
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia
, vol. ii, T. & W. Boone, London, 1849, 1–2, 89–102.

Abel Tasman,
Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand
, ed. J. E. Heeres, Amsterdam, 1898. Republished by N. A. Kovach, Los Angeles, 1965, 11–12, 14–15.

Watkin Tench,
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
, London, 1793, republished in
1788
, ed. and intr. Tim Flannery, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1996, 186–97.

Michael Terry,
Sand and Sun
, Michael Joseph, London, 1937, 38–39, 103–10.

Te Pahi sources,
Historical Records of New South Wales
, vol. vi, ed. F. M. Bladen, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, Sydney, 1898, 2–9;
Sydney Gazette
, Sunday, 22 December 1805,
A Facsimile Reproduction of Volume Three
, Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996.

William Wall, from Australian Museum Archives: series 265; W. S. Wall, ‘Notes of a Journey from Sydney to the Murrimbigi River in Pursuite of Specimens of Natural History', 1844 (original handwritten manuscript and typescript copy).

Peter Egerton Warburton,
Journey across the Western Interior of Australia
, ed. H. W. Bates, Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, London, 1875, 238–61.

Warrup, from George Grey,
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia
, vol. ii, T. & W. Boone, London, 1841, 346–50.

Lawrence Wells, from Journal of the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition 1896–7'
Parliamentary Paper, Western Australia 1902
, No. 46, W. M. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, Perth, 1902, 59–62.

William John Wills,
A Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia
, ed. William Wills, Richard Bentley, London, 1863, 292–303. Facsimile edition published by The Friends of the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 1996.

Readers interested in discovering more about the world of Australian exploration might also want to seek out these books:

Jan Bassett,
Great Explorations: An Australian Anthology
, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996.

Michael Cannon,
The Exploration of Australia
, Reader's Digest, Sydney, 1987.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick,
Australian Explorers: A Selection from Their Writings
, Oxford University Press, London, 1958.

Robin Hanbury-Tenison,
The Oxford Book of Exploration
, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.

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